The first onboarding we ship probably isn’t an install — it’s an update to a plugin somebody else sold them. A scannable manifest table instead of a wizard, previews drawn from the reader’s own colour values rather than screenshots, and a registry so any plugin attaches its own rows. Content is real, from 152 LDX commits.

The chosen direction drawn at 1440px with a real 160px admin menu — because the earlier mocks were a third of a real screen, and sparse reads as clean at 500px and empty at 1440px. Adds the ghost numeral, a hairline schematic, and the tile ladder. The type scale was most of the problem.

The chosen palette taken seriously: three purples with three jobs, plus six identity devices that aren’t colour at all — led by the brand mark used as the progress indicator, since the logo is a 3×3 grid of six tiles that can fill as you advance.

The first Tangible design for wp-admin proper. A shared onboarding frame that inherits each plugin’s colour, a progress rail that cannot be drawn until the licence resolves, and consent that prints the actual payload instead of a policy link. Stress-tested against four hostile notices and a recoloured admin.

One screen, six diverging palettes, judged on a deliberately neutral page — the last round looked creamy because the artifact page itself was #FDFAF8. Includes the indigo↔WP-blue midpoint. The finding: wp-admin’s learned colour meanings eliminate olive and salmon outright.

The ornament model survived review; the glyph position control did not. Four replacement strategies — plain words, the format’s own schematic map, thumbnail radio cards, drop-on-preview — each drawn on three formats, plus the decided two-rows-and-a-countdown-toggle panel.

v2 modelled decoration as one enum on the eyebrow. This splits it into three axes — up to two placed ornaments, a frame treatment, and the existing art presets — recovers the pre-v1 stickers and dashed borders, and adds ribbon, price tag, stamp and burst. Every rail shown failing.

All seven formats, grouped by slot class, plus a live arbitration simulator showing which campaign wins each slot. The round trip: v1 went into Julia's Figma and came back as spec.

Working editor for topbar, banner and welcome mat. Julia's Figma, ported — the form derives itself from the format and the surfaces really render. Superseded by v2.

The first kitchen sink: the 40% OFF spinwheel sticker, ticket-edge strips, rotating promo bars, in-navbar placements, hero-collapse-on-scroll. Explorations, mostly not v1.